The irony of project management is that the bigger the deal you make of the new standard PMO and process in your company, the less likely people will want to adopt your approach. Consider these words used frequently to describe organizational project management:

A standard approach

A dashboard for control

An audit of our project

None of the words in italics create hope and excitement in a project manager. Each of these words implies that there will be layers of overhead added to the already ambitious projects people are working on, making it more and more likely that projects will be late and over budget. Avoid teeing up your approach with these types of words.Here are some of the wrong reasons to create an organizational approach to project management: